Her Single Rose (Remus Lupin)

Thirty-One

Aries awoke to the sunrise burning through the window. The light making her dress shimmer.

Feeling the unfamiliar, yet comfortable, warmth she remembered where she was and who she was with.

The Shrieking Shack...

She looked forwards seeing the sleeping bodies of James, Peter, and Sirius. James snoring softly and Sirius crouched in a ball position.

Peter just kind of laid there, if she had just walked in the room, she might've mistaken him for dead. Though she could see the light rise and fall of his chest.

Shock had came and passed the second she really thought about it. Moony was one of the nicknames thrown around which made sense to who she was laying next to. The Marauders had become who they are to protect their friend.

James of course was the stag, Sirius the dog, and Peter the rat.

Knowing who's arm was around her, she glanced behind her just to make sure.

Remus

She couldn't deny that small flip in her stomach when she watched his sleeping features. She also couldn't deny that it was the best sleep she had gotten since she started the year, whether or not she was on the dirty wood floor.

Realizing it would be a bad idea if the Marauders saw her in there with them, plus under Remus's arm, she carefully got out of his grasp.

Feeling slightly sad that she had to move from the position, she busied herself with cleaning the wounds of her friends. Because the sun had only just risen, there was a low chance any of them would wake.

Aries cleaned James first, his leg easily cleaned and stitched up with her cream that she accio to get it.

Sirius next with only a couple simple already healing scraped and a hurt ankle. She only wrapped his ankle with a simple white cloth to hold it together and elevated it with what she could find inside of the room.

Peter didn't have much either, but a bit of bruising on his side. Unable to do much with bruising, she placed a folded blanket under it so that if he shifted in his sleep, there would be no pain.

Remus, oh he had a bit more than a couple bruises. Scrapes deep and shallow littered his body. She summoned another clean washbowl and began working on his deep wounds first to make sure he wouldn't get infections. Once she finished all of the wounds, it looked to be near seven in the morning.

With that Aries pulled a blanket over Remus and began attempting to make her way out of the room without waking them all up. So she transformed back into a fox and began her trek.

Having less weight to sound any creaking from the wooden planks under her feet, she leapt carefully to the door, only needing about four strides to make it silently.

With that, Aries carefully made her way down the steps of the shack and out the hole of the whomping willow.

After remembering what she did to freeze the willow from thrashing her into the ground and squishing her, she pressed her paw against knot. The tree froze so fast it looked like it was stupefied.

She changed back into her human form and walked rather quickly past Hagrid's Hut before he awoke as well and caught her.

Once she had done so, Aries made her way back towards the school, picking up her heels by the entrance before going in. Since the sun was still pretty low, she knew it couldn't be past seven in the morning, meaning she only had about three hours of sleep last night.

Breakfast didn't start for two hours since it was Sunday, so that gave Aries enough time to sneak into the common room and into her dorm for hopefully more sleep.